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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of North Somerset Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official North Somerset website
12,854 approved · 1,554 refused · 862 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Sept 2018 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
New Park House Happerton Lane Easton-in-Gordano BS20 0QP
Received 12 Jan 2026Ploverfield Bath Road Burrington BS40 5DQ
Received 12 Jan 202618 Meadway Avenue Nailsea BS48 2DU
Received 12 Jan 2026Field To East Of Canada Coombe Hutton
Received 13 Jan 202653 Lower Burlington Road Portishead BS20 7BP
Received 13 Jan 20261 Parsonage Close Winford BS40 8DQ
Received 13 Jan 2026J'arrive Crabtree Lane Dundry BS41 8LN
Received 13 Jan 20261 Warren Close Long Ashton BS41 9FB
Received 13 Jan 202614 The Crescent Backwell BS48 3NL
Received 13 Jan 2026Land At Parsonage Farm 9 Church Lane Long Ashton BS41 9LU
Received 13 Jan 202652 Cambridge Road Clevedon BS21 7HE
Received 14 Jan 2026Freemans Quarry Potters Hill Felton BS48 3XB
Received 14 Jan 2026Freemans Quarry Potters Hill Felton Bristol BS48 3XB
Received 14 Jan 2026Freemans Quarry Potters Hill Felton Bristol BS48 3XB
Received 14 Jan 20261 Brecon View Weston-super-Mare BS24 9NF
Received 14 Jan 2026Rosemont Church Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PG
Received 14 Jan 2026Pavement Outside 18 The Drive Churchill
Received 13 Jan 2026Land At Rear Of Purn House Farm Purn Farm Bridgwater Road Bleadon
Received 13 Jan 2026Birnbeck Pier Birnbeck Island Birnbeck Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 14 Jan 2026Wharf House Back Lane Kingston Seymour BS21 6UY
Received 14 Jan 2026J'arrive Crabtree Lane Dundry BS41 8LN
Received 14 Jan 2026Land South Of Chelvey Cottages Chelvey Lane Backwell
Received 15 Jan 202619 Coombe Road Nailsea BS48 2HH
Received 15 Jan 2026Junction Of Regil Road And Featherbed Lane Regil
Received 15 Jan 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for North Somerset Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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